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Man Too Tall to Fly - Just when you thought air travel couldn't get worse, you hear one more hair-raising air travel tale. Was one passenger too tall to fly? Brooks Anderson, 25, stands at 6'7". So, naturally, it's hard for him to fit most places, let alone a tiny airplane seat. But on a recent Spirit Airlines flight from Chicago to Fort Myers, Fla., the tight squeeze forced him to stand for the entire flight. Man Too Tall to Fly According to Anderson, he couldn't finagle a seat with more legroom, and the flight attendants wouldn't let him stretch his knees into the aisle. Anderson, who found the lack of legroom physically painful, asked the attendants if he could stand, and they said he could. So Anderson stood during his flight to Florida, for two and a half entire hours. According to the FAA, it is not illegal for passengers to stand during a flight, as long as they are seated for takeoff and landing, which Anderson was. Still, the agency says it is a...